The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Good Evening :hello:

gally - did it work? If we'd pointed out that it's not the best tasting thing you'll try this year, no-one would try it I find the taste bearable - it's the smell that gets me. I always think something has died and transmogrified on the carpet. And then I remember I have valerie sitting in front of me.

I have spent money today. Mostly on needed things, and a bit of impulse buying in the m&$ sale on clothes for BG. Luckily the one item I was going to buy anyway. I didn't have enough money on me the other day. A situation that saved me £1.50 today :j

I popped a donation in the FB box in the BS. There was more in there since yesterday, so I'm hopeful folk are twigging on, and it'll prove a success and lots of 'good stuff' will get to where it needs to go

Tea was spiced parsnip and apple soup. It's kinda sorta made up - the quantities and spices certainly are a case of whatever is to hand, But I seem to remember that its origins are in a Jane Grigson recipe, maybe with pear rather than apple?? Can't remember. But it was delish.

I still haven't got round to completing my meal-plan :doh:

Today i am grateful for these 3 things;

meeting new people

choices

tea from scratch in minutes :j

Ta for popping in. Appreciated.

Greying X

Good afternoon :hello:

Thanks Cheery, your support - and the support of all on here - is absolutely invaluable

Well, we've seized the day and been hither and yon I have bought one or two grocery bits and pieces - making sure I took advantage of the last day of the S6 and purchased 2 x bags of parsnips and a HUGE swede We were gifted some leeks too :j

I know that some of you may think that 'listening to the universe' (etc etc) is a lot of new-age mumble jumble, but I'm open to it enough to...... keep an ear open to co-incidence etc. I haven't won the lottery (:( boo!), nor transformed my life because of it, but I'm sure I've participated in alot of 'good stuff', because I've been a little bit open-minded, and I've certainly met some nice people because of it So it's been no surprise today, that I overheard something - which I possibly wasn't supposed to (as such) - but which has helped me make a decision about carrying on - or not - with a social group that I'd joined. I'd been getting less and less 'out' of turning up (not that I expect it to be 'take, take, take' - I do try ever so hard to give too) and was thinking of just jacking in participation. The way today panned out, I could see that it won't be very long before there is a natural point to quit, without ruffling feathers, and up until that point, we literally can just 'enjoy the ride'.

I'm glad that I donated to the FB yesterday, as my donations from last week, and several weeks before - to the other collection point - are still sat in the box. It's important to me to know that my donations are getting to where they need to be. Sitting in a box for weeks on end is helping no-one.

BG is having a nap, and I need to get on and do some housework (ugh!).

Tea tonight is a mystery. I really must get my butt into gear with this dang menu-planning. Retrospective meal-planning does not have legs as an idea! :rotfl:


Greying X

Good Evening :hello:

rtandon27 wrote: »

GP - at the risk of getting booted off your lovely thread...:o:o:o

...would it be a complete faux-pas to pull your donations out of said box & give them to the FB that you are currently donating to???

Just saying...;):D

Ha ha ha - rtandon - a thought such as that did tip-toe through my mind at one point. But you just know that I would have got caught red-handed removing the things - by someone and it would be interpreted totally as .... theft :D So no, I have left my contributions there, in the hope that they get to their intended destination sometime before Christmas. And I shall keep my fingers crossed and hope that the BS are meaningfully engaged with their project, and that will perhaps enable me to 'make up the difference'

Tea this evening ended up being red kidney bean chilli, rice and broccoli. The chilli used up the remaining half a bottle of passata and the broccoli was the remainder of a bag out of the freezer. Cheap, cheerful and filling. And just the right sort of nosh, given the biting cold wind.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

karma

decisions

emails

Ta for popping in. Greatly appreciated.


Greying X

gallygirl wrote: »

That'd be a resounding NO . Back to the drawing board, though maybe third time lucky tonight? Have to say it tastes better than it smells - but if it didn't I wouldn't have been able to drink it :rotfl:.

Not sure how I feel on the woo-wooness of asking the Universe (though hedging my bets by writing Universe with a capital :rotfl:). However, I do know that if you talk to people (ridiculous concept I know ) and 'put what you want out there' (not necessarily specifically asking for something) things can happen. Just wrote a long post that bored me when I read it back so deleted it, let's just say I've a few examples of it working :rotfl:.

Aw, that's a shame about the tea. I'm not sure how 'long' you're supposed to give it to 'kick in'. I know herbal medicines etc usually say 1 - 2 weeks, but I was very lucky with the tea, in that there was a discernable difference after the first cup, and it's worked pretty much since - although I've thwarted it several times by winding myself up like the town hall clock!

Yes, I think you're relating to 'universe' in a similar way to me. I think it is possibly as much about listening as 'communicating', and then joining the dots together - leading to what you asked for/desired/needed etc, perhaps being more (or seemingly more) readily available. I'm not too sure I'm into 'woo-woo' thinking where you just write your wish-list, sit back and watch it all fall in your lap tickety-boo. After all, sometimes what we most desire, isn't actually what we need.

Only pragmatic woo-woo thinking on this thread, please. :rotfl:

Greying X